The Irish standard., 1887-08-27
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
Dayitt and Sexton Delivered Spirited
Speeches to Monster Meetings
in Manchester.
UNANIMITY OF THE AUDIENCES.
Home Rule Will Come Because It Must,
There Being No Conceivable
Alternative.

A great meeting of the Home Rule
Union was held in Potters park, Man
chester, Oh the last Saturday in July.
MIR. Dayi5t and MIR, Sexton, NJ. P, were
the principal speakers. The meeting
was largely composed of Englishmen,
and their reception Of the Irish speakers
WAS marked by the greatest cordiality.
Mr. Ficton, M. r. for Leicester, who
presided at the platform on which Mi
Davjtt spoke. made very earnest and
effective speech in advocating the claim
OF The Irish nation 20 govern itself. Mr.,
J. T. Brencrd [LiyerpooN proposed:
''Jhat this meeting so)emnlY protests
against the utterly unjustifiable action
OF the government in inflicting upon
ireland the most vindictive coercion
bill which even the people Of that
country have ever suffered. The re-
markable and continued freedom from
crime, and the absence Of any facts 80
justify exceptional legislation in Ireland
form additional evidence that tive object
Of the government in coniscating Che
most ordinary tights and liberties Of the
Irish people is to place the tenants more
than ever ia the power of the landlords,
and to give to that expiring class 81 last
chance Of conliscating the property of
their tenants. Isrejojces, however, at
the warm union existing between the
demoeracies Of Great Britain and Ire-
land, aud trusts to that power to pro-
duce q speedy reversal OF this measure -
Nh. i. SmaIlman seconded the reso-
lutiOn,
DAVIIT'S GRAFTON.
Mr.. Michael Davitt said it was we'll
worth while to travel from beneath She
shadows OF Kilniajnham prison to Wit
ness that truly magnificent tiemoustra-
tiou. Indeed amolAg the many enGGur-
aging signs Of the times he knew Of
none more full OF hope to Ireland than
that Of SO many thousands OF Laucfl-
shire Wolkingnlen devotlng their Stltur
day afternoon to the purpose of con-
demning the policy OF the cowardiy
coercionist Tory party. The resolution
which had been proposed and seconded
called upon those present to repudiate
the application Of a repressive measure
to a country which was nctoriousIy free
from crime. Why, even the sa]arled
statisticians OF Dubliu Castle had not
been able to make out @ case fol Mr..
Balfour which would justify the
enactment Of the eighty seventh coer-
cion act OF the present century. Her
majesty's judges Of assize in Ire}aad
had also testified to the whole world
how remarkable shat country was in
the absence from al kinds of crime at
the present time. The only crime COM
nitted in Ireland now was that of eyic-
ton. and the only criminals were Irish
landlords. Nevertheless, all Ireland
was proclaimed last Saturday (crles of
SHANE to be under police control and
to be deprived Of every vestige Of con-
stitutional liberty which Lord London
derry or Nr. Balfour chose to take from
the people. r'Shame.') What had
been the weapon with which the irish
people had carried on the battle against
landlordisln and Dublin Castle for the
last eight or niue years? Not those of
revolution. Not a resort to physical
force, no, their weapons have been con-
stitutional representation in the House
of Commons, open and legitimate po-
litical combination in Ireland, the right
of public meeting, and the privilege of
free speech. With these weapons, and
none others, they had proved them
selves more than amatch for Irish land
lordism; and the Tory landlords Of Ire
land, to save themselves and their cause
from utter defeat, had called upon the
Tory landlords of Great Britain and
their hackers to strike down the Irish
people by brute force. Their only JUS
tifcation for that coercionist policy
now, as the chairman had told them,
was that they had to cope with some
boycotting in many of the counties i'll
Ireland. He would ask them to put to
the Tory or Liberal Unionist the query
"where did the people of Ireland learn
the lesson of boycotting?" Had they
never heard Of thousands of tenant far
mers in the present generation having
been eyicted by their landlords because
they would not conform to their wishes
At the general elections? Had they
never heard of Nationalist produce in
Ireland being regularly boycotted by
\ irish landlords? Had they ever heard of
Dublin Castle or a land board of guar
D dams, or an aristo ocratlcally controlled
town council in Ireland giving adver
I stisements to a ationalist newspaper?
Had they ever heard Of landl lords taking
/ |2iDLl Is their service yationa lists from
amongst II the people? The alton